Apparatus for applying adhesive material to paper wrappers.



No. 688,752. Patented Dec. I0, IQOII A. E. lSTINEHDUIE'I APPARATUS FOR APPLYING ADHESIVE MATERIAL T0 PAPER WRAPPERS.

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ONE-HALF TO JOSEPH A. VOLOOTT, OF

CAMBRID GE, MASSACHUSETTS.

APPARATUS FOR APPLYING ADHESIVE MATERIAL TO PAPER WRAPPERS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 688,752, dated December lO, 1901. Application led December 5, 1900. Serial No. 38.725. `(No model.)

To all whom t 71mg/ concern:

Be it known that I, ALONZO E. STINEHOUR, of Cambridge, in the county of Middlesex and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Apparatus for Applying Adhesive Material to Paper Vtrappers, of which the following, taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, is a specication.

My invention relates to apparatus for applying adhesive material to paper wrappers; and it consists in certain novel features of construction, arrangement, and combination of parts, which will be readilyunderstood by reference to the description of the accompanying drawings and to the claims hereto appended, and in which my invention is clearly pointed out.

Figure 1 is a plan ofthe receiver for holding a pile of the paper wrappers in convenient position for having the glue applied thereto, drawn to an enlarged scale. Fig. 2 is a section of the same on line I J. Fig. 3 is an inverted plan of the hand-stamp for applying the glue tothe wrappers. Fig. 4 is a sectional elevation of the same, the cutting plane being on line K L. Fig. 5 is a transverse section of the same on line M N on Fig. 3.

Boxes for putting up confectionery having the appearance of bundles have been in use heretofore in which the cover tothe box is made to entirely inclose the body of the box and having their outside paper coverings simply wrapped around the top, sides, and ends, with overlapping folds at the ends, said covering being secured to the body of the cover only by being glued to the inner surfaces of the walls of said cover after being folded over the edges of said walls. Said paper wrappers were eut to the form indicated bythe dotted lines ou Fig. 1, representing an oblong Octagon, and heretofore the person who applied the wrapper to the box-cover had to apply the glue or paste with a brush in narrow stripes along the two long sides and to about three-fifths, more or less, of the lengt-h of the two end edges before applying said wrappers to the body of the box-cover. This was necessarily a slow operation, and consequently an expensive one. To reduce the expense of applying the paper wrappers to said boxcovers is the object of my present invention, and to this end I have devised the apparatus illustrated in the accompanying drawings and which forms the subject-matter of this application.

In the drawings, 14 represents a rectangu lar plate,` preferably of wood, which has set therein near its rearand left-hand edges a series of upwardly/projecting metal standards 15, which have a height considerably greater than the height of the pile of wrappers to be placed upon said plate 14C. Said plate 14 has adjustably secured to its front edge the two gages 1G and to its right-hand edge a similar gage 17, the space between said standards and gages forming a hopper or receiver in which is placed a pile of Wrappers, as indicated in dotted lines in Figs. 1 and 2. The gages 16 and 17 are each provided with aslot 18, through which the clamping-bolt 19 passes and is screwed into the plate 14 to clamp said gage to said plate in the desired adjusted position. By means of said slots 18 the gages 16 and 17 may be adjusted to a limited eX- tent to adapt the hopper-space to the size of the wrapper for the time being to be operated upon. If, however, wrappers of considerably less size are to be used, a greater adjustment of the gages 16 and 17 may be made than the slots 18 will permit of by changing the bolts 19 to either of the holes 20. (Shown in Fig. 1.)

The plate 11 is mounted upon anysuitable table, (not shown,) upon which is also mounted a glue-distributing plate. (Also not shown.) In Figs. 3, 4, and 5 is illustrated a handstamp, by which the glue is transferred from the distributing-plate to the upper one of the pile of wrappers placed on the plate 14 between the standards 15 and the gages 16 and 17, said stamp censisting of a rectangular frame 3i, having its lower outer corner rabbeted and provided with the central bar 35, provided with the opening 3G to form a handle 37', as shown. Metal plates 38 and 30 are secured in the rabhets 40 of the frame 34; and project below the under surface of said frame to a sufficient distance to prevent any glue coining in contact with said frame when taking glue from the glue-distributing plate, the plates 38, secured to the IOO longer sides of the frame 3l, being of a length corresponding to the length of the longest sides of the paper wrappers upon which it is to be used, and the plates 3S) have a length equal to about three-{ifths oi' the length of the end edges ot' said wrappers, as shown.

The operation of my invention is as follows: The hopper having a pile of wrappers placed therein and the distributing-plate having a thin coating of hot glue spread thereon, the operator takes the hand-stamp in his right hand and places the edges of the plates 38 and 39 in contact with sai'l glue, so as to take up thereon a quantity of glue, then transfers said stamp to a position above said pile ot' wrappers, with one side and one end in contact with the standards 15, then presses said stamp downward upon the upper wrapper in said pile lo apply said glue thereto along the desired lines, and then raises said wrapper, with said stamp, and transfers it to a con venient position to be seized by the person who Yis to apply it to the box-cover.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is-

In an apparatus for applying adhesive material to paper Wrappers, in lines near all four edges thereof, the combination of a receiverplate; alsex-ies of adjustable gagessecured to said receiver-plate along one side and one end thereof, and having heights equal to the desired height of the pile of Wrappers to be placed upon said receiver-plate; and a series of gage-standards set in Xed positions in said receiver-plate along its opposite side and end, and projecting upward therefrom to a suicient height above the tops of said adjustable gages, to serve as a ready means of accurately locating a hand-stamp in a proper position above said Wrappers, before pressing it into contact therewith.

In testimony whereof' I have' signed my name to this specification, in the presence of two subscribing witnesses, this 3d day of December, A. D. 1900.

ALONZO E. STINEHOUR.

Witnesses:

N. C. LOMBARD, ALFRED E. HoUGH'roN. 

